Posted on 07/26/2015 6:22:41 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Belittling a longtime senator's military service is usually a good way to end a political campaign. In Donald Trump's case, a new set of polls out from NBC/Marist Sunday morning suggest it's not stopping the business mogul's rapid rise in the GOP field.
In New Hampshire, Trump comes in first with 21 percent; his closest competitor is Jeb Bush, who's at 14 percent. Scott Walker comes in third with 12 percent, then John Kasich at 7 percent, Chris Christie and Ben Carson at 6 percent and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz at 5 percent.
And in Iowa, where Trump made his now-infamous comments about McCain earlier this month, the business mogul comes in a close second to Walker. Walker takes 19 percent in the poll, compared with Trump at 17 percent. They're followed by Bush (12 percent), Carson (8 percent), Huckabee (7 percent) and Rand Paul (5 percent).
The pair of polls were taken just as Trump was questioning McCain's war hero status at a GOP cattle-call event in Iowa. There, his support actually rose (within the margin-of-error) after he made the comments: he was getting 16 percent in the interviews conducted beforehand, compared with 18 percent in the ones done after. (The comments do seem to have hurt him in New Hampshire, though not enough to take him out of first place: he was getting 26 percent in the interviews before his McCain comments, compared with 14 percent afterward.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
DO you think Trump, who is someone who measures his own success by his wealth, would pick a VP who took two successful companies and ran them into the ground?
“Department of Homeland Security – Gov. Martinez”
I could marry her...almost.
GOPe’s heads are exploding.
He doesn't drink and (he says) only sleeps 3 to 5 hours a night.
That leaves a lot of time for other stuff.
Why do we even have VA hospitals?
Separate is very unlikely to be equal.
“The comments do seem to have hurt him in New Hampshire”
Always with the “comments”. They love to keep the discussion subjective to control the narrative. ...and you can always count on people to accept the “comments” were just awful without knowing what was said.
Look around you see “comments” being discussed everywhere, never the actual words in context.
Hey Jimbo,
I remember you posting this weeks ago.
That NH poll would show Trump ahead.
I like the accuracy of your inside information!
You were right on.
And the a Rats are laughing and cheering.
I suspect he’s in league with Hillary.
I still dont know how Jeb even polls any digits, who in their right mind would vote for this imbecile.
Agreed....the buzz is Yebbie and wifey were planning a campaign ad---the two of them in the kitchen making tacos.
Been called off---at least, until his wife learns how to make meat loaf and mashed potatoes.
That's Donald's favorite.
ROTFLOL.
Who is your suggestion for State?
Ya know, she is kinda a cutie. I’m surprised they haven’t launched a broad-side attack on her yet.
Kinda like Nikki Haley. A woman who had everything going for her, until she took the GOPe bait... and sold out. Sad. The way she folded almost makes me suspect some of the rumors about her may have had merit.
Pollsters are corrupt pieces of crap. They held the NH results for 3 weeks hoping Bush would re-take the lead in time for the August polls.
With the help
of his Google crony capitalist pals he has set up vast databases on all of without our consent.
He has rewritten federal regs to attack and destroy the white middle class for decades and the crony capitalist crowd that benefits from his vast regulations
will fight to keep it all this intact !
We have no one except Trump and Cruz fighting against our K street enemies like Bonehead, McCarthy, Coruyn , Priebus, Ryan, Mitchy, Corker, .
These DC elites hate us all.
My pick for Secy of State.....Carly.
This guy (Dennis Michael Lynch) has been on Fox and Beck warning about the border situation and now he is hoping Trump can make a difference. He said illegal immigration IS THE MAIN WAY OBAMA INTENDS TO TRANSFORM AMERICA.
They Come To America III (short promo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1SgJniCUcg
Dennis Michael Lynch: They Come to America 3: The rapists and criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR1O8nQxGiI
Agree, it was sad with Nikki. Susanna is holding up well and would be a great addition to Trump’s administration.
Absolutely! He is clearing the weeds for us to pick a true conservitive. Jeb aint it!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.